Quotes About Authenticity

Love, of course, is a wonderful thing, a grand adventure of the heart. But while it's thrilling to get caught up in its wake, don't forget to hold on to who you are—or that incredible person might get swept away.

Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, live truly, forgive quickly.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace

But what original commentary can you supply, from the uniqueness of your particular life? What holy text have you absorbed and made your own? In what ways have these timeless truths renovated your nature? Are you content to be a hollow victrola, mechanically repeating the words of other men?

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady

If you have a beautiful face you don't need fake boobs to get anyone's attention

I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that. I have been thinking that I want to do different things when I am out of here. I have become much more spiritual. God has given me this new chance.

There are so many young women who need to hear this story. I don't want them to learn from my mistakes; I want them to stop hating themselves for mistakes of their own. I want them to laugh and see that they do have a voice and their own brand of intelligence and, girl, fuck fitting in.

Don't waste energy living a life someone else designed for you. Life is one per customer. Let them do theirs. You do yours.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

The soul speaks its truth only under quiet, inviting, and trustworthy conditions.

As young people, we are surrounded by expectations that may have little to do with who we really are, expectations held by people who are not trying to discern our selfhood but to fit us into slots.

Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.

Insisting on maintaining dignity at all costs is paralyzing. Mistakes are informative, and so is playing the fool

Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.

Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform.

Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part of me.

Unlike most women I have known, she placed no value on shallow pretensions or hypocritical displays of gentility.

A truly humble person won't try to impress you, manipulate you, judge you, criticize you, or put you in your place. Humble people are safe to be around. You can relax. You can be yourself.

Live and let live is Frances's motto. "Life is short," she likes to say. "You only get one, and if you waste it worrying about what other people think

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.